Description
Color: Cream, brown, blue, yellow and green. Individual colonies are uniform in colour except for the branch ends which are pale.

Colonies are arborescent, usually staghorn-like. Radial corallites are of mixed sizes and shapes. Colonies are small bushes, tending towards developing small tables. Branches are slender. Radial corallites range from being relatively long and slender, often arranged in neat rows, or may be strongly appressed. Axial corallites may be no larger than the radials, or noticeably larger, both features occurring on the same colonies.

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